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MPs call for UK ban on trade and financing of deforestation-linked goods

Business Green

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Everything You Need to Know About Saudi Aramco

DeSmogBlog

trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. The firm single-handedly contributes as much as 43 percent of Saudi Arabia’s GDP.

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'Glasgow & London': COP26 venue tensions rumble on, as government preps forest protection alliance

Business Green

We are committed to holding COP 26 in Glasgow, but the Scottish government needs to work with us to make sure this is a successful summit, which showcases the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change and represents value for the UK taxpayer," he was quoted as saying.

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Environmental sustainability and resilience for a clean and green recovery

Business Green

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. As co-hosts of the next climate COP, we will be asking other countries to do the same. I send my condolences to his family.

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Business Lobby Reaches Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks

DeSmogBlog

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. What you see here are two COPs,” he said. The UN said it was important to bring private interests to the negotiating table.

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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate

Energy Innovation

Mangroves, like these pictured in Singapore’s Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, are often considered a biodiverse-rich ecosystem that also affords climate protection. This recent COP, also a pillar of global progress on sustainability, focused not primarily on climate change but on biological diversity. PFAS and other “forever chemicals”).

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How forestry conservation is sustaining both the climate and livelihoods in the Congo

Business Green

At the UN's recent COP 26, over 140 world leaders promised to end deforestation by 2030, pledging over $19bn to do so. It addresses not just climate, but also biodiversity, livelihoods, the rights of indigenous peoples, and effective funding. To limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 The results are encouraging. Empathy helps.